Time: 8 hrs. earlier than GMT; Same time with Beijing Time.

时差：比格林尼治时间早8小时；与北京时间相同。

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CHINA's car market has overtaken America's in sales volume for the first time, several years earlier than analysts had predicted before the financial crisis.

中国的汽车市场第一次超过了美国的销售金额，比金融危机前分析家预测的早了好几年。

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Never fix an exact time; if possible, turn up earlier than expected.

他们通常不会跟你确定确切见面时间，如果可能的话，还会比预期中出现得更早。

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"I know it's hard to come back from, but I'm on it a lot earlier than I was last time, " said Noah, who missed 18 games with plantar fasciitis during the 2009-10 season.

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The restructuring, done under the auspices of the Paris Club, an informal group of western creditor countries, came earlier than expected and just in time for the first round of Iraqi elections expected in January.

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It also reminds us that novelists of any earlier time had larger ambitions than they do in our day, when they are often content to write about people who, like themselves, live more in their minds than in the world.

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